Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

UltraDefrag is a free, easy-to use-utility that defragments files and optimizes their placement on your hard drive. It sports both a simple but effective Windows graphic interface and a command line ...

For decades, desktop and laptop owners have been told to defragment their hard drives to get the best performance, especially on Windows-based PCs. Defragging reorganizes the drive so the operating ...

Back in the bad old days of computing, hard-drive defragmentation was a big deal. You needed a quality third-party “defragger,” and you needed to run it regularly—at least once a month—to ensure ...

If Windows built-in defragger isn’t enough for you, Smart Defrag 3 is a feature-packed replacement. Though the benefits of defragging your hard drive are minimal in this day and age, after long ...

I realise that defrag is supposed to help maintain the performance of your HD by keeping your files contiguous etc.; but it seems to me that when I defrag my hard drive I am actually putting it ...

Defragmentation actively harms SSDs. Flash memory cells can only handle a limited number of write cycles before they wear out. Each time you defragment, you're forcing the drive to rewrite massive ...

There are few operations to get up and running that are as complex as a computer system. The hardware involved–CPUs, monitors, hard drives and network cabling–is only the beginning. Then there is the ...

Question: I’ve been using Windows forever and as part of my annual device cleanup process, I defragment the hard drive. That supposedly makes it run faster. But do I need to do that with a new SSD ...

i have 3 partitions and the first two (OS and documents) defrag perfectly with no problems. They have 8gb and 5 gb respectively. However, my big e drive doesn't defragment. I contains all my games, ...